Thinking Food: Imagining and Enacting Just Food Futures

Event Overview

The two-day concluding colloquium for the Thinking Food at Intersections Sawyer Seminar critically engages justice-centered visions for the future of food through community engagement, scholarship, art, activism and the senses. Throughout this immersive experience, participants will engage in a food performance by artist and Black food futurist Nia Lee, participate in workshops with artists, scholars, makers, and food scientists, and learn from provocative thinkers and doers, including Julie Guthman, author most recently of The Problem With Solutions: Why Silicon Valley Can’t Hack the Future of Food and Carlton Turner, Co-Founder of the Mississippi Center for Cultural Production (Sipp Culture).

This culminating Thinking Food colloquium is co-sponsored by the Manetti Shrem Museum, the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food, Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life, and the Darrell Corti Endowed Professor in Food, Wine and Culture.

Registering for the Two-Day Colloquium

Registration for the colloquium covers your attendance on both Friday, May 30 and Saturday, May 31. The event has been designed to immerse attendees in an experience that spans both days and includes interactive programming as well as breakfasts, lunches and a reception. Please register for this colloquium with the intent to attend both Friday (at the Manetti Shrem Museum) and Saturday (at the Robert Mondavi Institute for Food and Wine Science).

Please see below for the schedule of events and venues for each day of the colloquium.

Schedule of Events: Friday, May 30

9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Location: Manetti Shrem Museum

[9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.] Registration, coffee, and pastries

[10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.] Opening remarks

[10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.] Black Food Futurism: Nia Lee

[12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.] Lunch and museum viewing

[2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.] Story Circles with Carlton Turner

[3:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.] Keynote: Julie Guthman

Parking is paid on weekdays at UC Davis. The nearest parking lot to the Manetti Shrem Museum is Visitor Parking Lot 1 ( http://campusmap.ucdavis.edu/?l=31) or the Gateway Parking Structure ( http://campusmap.ucdavis.edu/?b=142).

Visitor parking is $17 and can be paid using AggiePark via the AMP Park app, or a day-use permit may be purchased from the permit machine at the Gateway Garage. For more details about visitor parking at UC Davis, please visit: transportation.ucdavis.edu/visitor.

Schedule of Events: Saturday, May 31

9:30 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.

Location: Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food (Sensory Building)

[9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.] Registration, coffee, and pastries

[10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.] Keynote: Carlton Turner

[11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.] Thinking, Doing, Tasting Workshops Rotation 1

[12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.] Lunch with Oaxacan & Hmong Cultural Kitchen

[2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.] Thinking, Doing, Tasting Workshops Rotation 2

[3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.] Reflection Hour

[4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.] Closing roundtable

[5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.] Reception on the patio

Parking is free on the weekends at UC Davis. The nearest parking lot to the Robert Mondavi Institute is the Gateway Parking Structure ( http://campusmap.ucdavis.edu/?b=142).

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